Y2Kyoto: MAID By Any Other Name
Patrick Christys: ‘The NHS cares more about net zero than saving lives. People will die, quite literally, sacrificed on the alter of the big green agenda’
Update: The link is gone, but you can watch the segment on Youtube
Will a First Nation-owned pipeline be without protests and opposition?
Can’t imagine why oil shippers demand explanation from Trans Mountain for pipeline cost overruns, can you?
B.C. First Nation and Western LNG partner to purchase natural gas pipeline project. Can they succeed in bringing a major pipeline in on time and on budget, or will they face the same perils as Trans Mountain (above) and Coastal GasLink? Will other First Nations do all they can to halt it, like GasLink? Will they destroy equipment and raid camps?
US Bureau of Land Management accepts bids for the sale of Federal Helium System. FYI the US Govt getting out of #helium is what’s driving Saskatchewan’s burgeoning industry
About those multi-lateral wells … and the Alberta grid
Saturn Oil & Gas has joined the multi-lateral bandwagon, having drilled two open hole multi-lateral wells that the Government of Saskatchewan announced an incentive for yesterday (shared yesterday)
I’ve been saying for over a year the Government of Saskatchewan needs to do something to increase drilling numbers. I’m wondering if this is it?
Also: Alberta’s shaking up its electrical grid by 2027. And in a related story, new rules for power generators in Alberta
Reject Net Zero by 2050, says Sask United
Several commenters on SDA frequently point out if you accept the premise of your opponent’s argument, you’ve already lost. Looks like that’s what the Saskatchewan United Party is saying here.
Saskatchewan United Party calls on Sask Party government to reject Net Zero by 2050 policy. Leader Nadine Wilson says the Sask Party government seeks to shut down coal and natural gas for wind and solar, gets punted from assembly for calling government liars.
NDP calls for break on fuel tax, finance minister says it would be temporary
Wind peters out in Alberta, yet again, on Wednesday
Op-Ed: Kaase Gbakon: A (Hungry?) Tiger in Your Tank: Part 2
The Libranos: YOU get a heat pump! and YOU get a heat pump!
You can’t fool Father Physics.
The energy charges from Nova Scotia Power total $1,591.37 for the period spanning Dec. 13 to Feb. 14. That’s not including taxes or the additional $773.32 he still owes from his previous bill.
Feaver said he’s on the brink of being disconnected, which has left him looking for a second job.
“It will be a job for Nova Scotia Power and then a job to live,” he said.
The 26-year-old rents a two-bedroom apartment in Bridgewater, N.S., with his girlfriend, their dog, two cats and pet snake. Their unit is on the top floor of an older home with a heat pump. They moved in last April.[…]
A rate increase of 6.5 per cent came into effect on Jan. 1, but customers are questioning why their bills jumped much higher.
Danielle Fraser of Westville, N.S., said her energy costs tripled. According to her bill, she used 4,268 kilowatts in January compared to 1,832 kilowatts in November.
She said no one at the utility can tell her why she’s drawing more electricity when her habits haven’t changed. She runs three heat pumps in her home and said she has them cleaned regularly.
On the radio
Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray Show: Coal, CO2 and what it means for oil production, wind in Alberta, Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, and a pile of listener calls. (Link is fixed)
Op-Ed: Kaase Gbakon: A (Hungry?) Tiger in Your Tank, Part 1
Not The Best Time To Mention Nuclear
@Breaking: John Kerry says people would ‘feel better’ about the war in Ukraine if Russia would ‘make a greater effort to reduce emissions’
Carbon tax, carbon tax, carbon tax
Guilbeault calls Saskatchewan premier ‘immoral’ for breaking carbon-price law.
Estevan MLA Lori Carr tries to show a difference between Sask Party and NDP on carbon tax in statement.
That statement was referenced in the exchange between Scott Moe and Carla Beck in Question Period on the federal carbon tax. The NDP thinks Saskatchewan should have negotiated a carve-out deal.
A plan to save coal, power generation, and the oil industry in SE Sask
What if there was a way to keep coal mining jobs in Saskatchewan, continue to produce low-cost electrical power, and extend the production of a substantial portion of Saskatchewan’s oilfields not by decades, but by generations? And in doing so, we could still dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and maybe save some money by reducing our nuclear rollout?
Recent developments from Whitecap Resources showing using CO2 in the Frobisher formation led to initial results of 5x improved production. Not 5%, or 50%, but 5x. That’s 500%. I’m not saying it’ll stay anywhere close to that, but we should be taking a very serious look at this development, especially since most new drilling in southeast Saskatchewan is focused on the Frobisher, part of the Mississippian. While the Bakken was a flash in the pan, the Mississippian has been the mainstay of SE Sask oil production for generations. And this is a generational opportunity, but we will let it slip through our fingers if we shut down our coal-fired power plants.
This is one of the most significant opinion pieces I’ve ever done with regards to energy. It basically puts it all together.
Carbon Tax, Round Four, Fight!
Saskatchewan NDP get into carbon tax fight, call out Moe for “failure to secure an Atlantic-style carve-out of the carbon tax.”
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Using crops to make diesel involves an inherent trade-off between the fuel’s climate-friendly benefits and preserving enough supplies to keep food prices in check.
Finding the balance can be tricky. That’s the challenge facing California as it debates a potential revamp of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
The frenzy to cash in on credits for lower emissions has triggered a surge in renewable diesel, with state supplies reaching records every quarter since 2020.
The escalation has led environmentalists to call for a limit on crop-based fuels, arguing it’s necessary to ensure the program doesn’t worsen hunger. The biofuel is often made from soybean oil, a staple for cooking.
“California is diverting soybean oil from food markets into its fuel market, and that’s surprising and troubling,” said Jeremy Martin, a senior scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists who studies the impacts of fuel policy.
And there’s a weird domino effect of using soy oil to make renewable diesel, which some critics say blunts the climate benefits.
As more soy oil goes into diesel, demand climbs for palm oil, a controversial commodity. The European Union wants to phase out its use in fuel production to curb deforestation.
California’s regulatory board recently postponed a March 21 hearing on the fuel standard.
Carbon Tax, Round Three, Fight!
Carbon tax war heats up between Saskatchewan and feds. Duncan says Saskatchewan won’t remit carbon tax after his “walk in the rain.” Wilkinson says no carbon rebates for Saskatchewan after province says it won’t remit. Moe says no rebate = no carbon tax.
My response to the federal government threatening to take away the Carbon Tax Rebate for Saskatchewan families. pic.twitter.com/mcDbYQx1FZ
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) February 29, 2024
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Where are we going? Higher!
About that walk in the snow… SaskEnergy minister takes a walk in the rain
Justin Trudeau may not have taken a “walk in the snow,” like his father did 40 years ago on this day, but Dustin Duncan took a walk in rain in front of Parliament, and decides we’re not remitting carbon tax to the feds.
This is the guy who, by a recently passed law, gets to be sacrificed on the cross for our carbon tax sins.
(The decision was clearly made before, but it makes good political theatre.)
No forecast for snow in Ottawa today, unfortunately. Maybe the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change changed the climate?
So long, spinny things in front of mountains!
Don’t block our mountains or mess with good farmland: #Alberta releases renewable power rules. And reclamation is going to be paid up front. This story is the full meat, potatoes, gravy and carrots on Wednesday’s wind and solar announcement.
And what’s the pool at for Trudeau resigning today? It’s 40 years to the day since daddy took his “walk in the snow.”
Better get back to building those wind turbines, Alberta!
Two days before Alberta is to lift its renewables pause, wind output falls to zero. Real reliable, that wind.
So they’ve built 45 wind farms so far, and they, in total, produced zero power. If they built 450, would that solve the problem?
And no, they’re not built with taxpayer dollars. But many are built for credits of all sorts.
Down The Memory Hole
Irreversible climate change catastrophe along with mass death will be upon us within twenty years, apparently.
Oh, wait,… that prediction was made twenty years ago.
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
There is No Strong Business Case for Canadian LNG
Qatar is unwavering in its view that the world isn’t investing enough in natural gas. And the tiny Middle Eastern nation is trying to fix that.
State-owned QatarEnergy said Sunday it will develop a 16 million-ton-a-year LNG export project by the end of the decade. That’s on top of its previously announced record-breaking expansion plans.
Altogether, the Gulf state will boost shipments of liquefied natural gas by more than 80% by 2030.
The move illustrates the nation’s conviction that demand for gas, especially in Asia, will continue rising even as the world shifts to renewables. That’s at odds with organizations such as the International Energy Agency, which sees global consumption peaking this decade.
Y2Kyoto: Climate Of Fear
One step forward, two steps back
While voicing its opposition to federal oil and gas emissions caps, Saskatchewan goes to Houston to seek investment
Saskatchewan’s letter to Guilbeault opposing oil and gas emissions cap.
Saskatchewan’s letter to Guilbeault opposing Methane 75 emissions.